Sorry for the late reply, my university keeps blocking my server so i haven't been able to update anything lately..

I'm always on Slackware Current.. I haven't done a reinstall since 9.0, so i'm not sure how to answer that question, but i haven't done an update of AMP for a few months now. It's probably more accustomed to 10.1 than 10.2. I'll try and update everything this weekend hopefully.

That i can answer based on other installations i did on other computers. Both.. Almost all of the time i go through a minimal intall without AMP, and then install AMP from linuxpackages.net. A few times i had to help a few friends update theirs so i removepkg mysql (and the mysql db in /var/lib/), php, and apache 1.x and 2.x (also rm -rf /etc/apache and /etc/apache2 - you may want to keep httpd.conf if you're not starting over from scratch), and start from scratch.


I haven't updated this in a while, because it gets irritating to update it here, and in the LQ Answers section (which i have no write access to and is a pain to update), and my site (which lost its htdocs/ recently...). But i'll start here and move onwards in a few days.

Thanks.

Hi there, MySQL no longer has Command Center I installed Administrator. In the bin directory of mysql I execute

# ./mysql-administrator
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified


(mysql-administrator-bin:10584): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Any ideas on why this doesn't execute. Or even better since I'm going to be using this on a server without X, what would be the commands to execute. I'm reading alot of documentation but can't seem to find such a simple answer.

Hmmm, I have a slight problem...

I get this when installing the php package:
Anybody got any ideas? I tried google, but I haven't found anything on that error. Thanks for any help,

It's complainig because it doesn't find php.ini-recommended file.
I think you should copy php.ini-recommended to php.ini if you have not one and edit it properly. Otherwise, if you have php.ini, copy it to php.ini-recommended.

Thing is, i couldn't find it anywhere Well I decided to compile everything from source and it worked out fine. Anyway thanks for replying.

thanks , but i have problem
when i type
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'
i got
/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)'

thanks , but when i type
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'
i got
/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)'

php.ini-recommende seems to be missing from the current php-5.0.5 package at linuxpackages.net

You can get it here (edit the url - I cant post urls): http(colon-slash-slash)cvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/php-src/php.ini-recommended

[Edit]: Beware though, it has to be "Slack'ified". See below.

d-d try : #mysql -u root -p
When asked for password, enter new-password.

hi,thanks 4 reply
i did ,
mysql -u root -p
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

d_d

As far as I remember MySql does not have a root password when you first start it up. You could actually do:

mysql -u root

You'll probably get the same error though. So first check if MySql is running:

ps -ax | grep mysqld

If you get anything besides the grep command its probably running. Else start it:

/etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld start

then try above mysql command againg or:

mysql -u root -h localhost

Mysql password was set after issuing /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password', which d_d of course did as we see from his post. If he didn't change anything in the password line, the empty password became new-password.

thanks for your help
i will try

Hi again fellow hackers.

If you, like me, tried to take newer packages than those recommended by Xushi, you could be in for a rough ride. They may not be complete, or they may not be compatible - "out of the box".

You could check the Slackware current packges at:

http(colon,slash,slash)slackware.it/en/

I suspect they are more likely to be compatible and complete. Or even go into compile mode yourself, and get the sources for MySql, Ápache and Php from their respective sites.

However...
If you are almost "done", tweaking your installation a bit could get you settled. I managed to make my installation work (seemingly). Here are a few of the things I had to do:

php.ini:
I got the cvs version from php's cvs repository.
http(colon-slash-slash)cvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/php-src/php.ini-recommended

It has to be Slackified a bit. Besides the obvious editing you also need to set the extension_dir:
extension_dir = "/usr/lib/php/extensions"

MySql client shared object wouldn't work though because, it was compiled for a different version of MySql. I had to make a dirty hack in /usr/lib:
# ln -s libmysqlclient.so.14 /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0

Effectively making php use a newer shared object. It seems to work - I can get phpMyAdmin to access my database.

I had to do a litle detectivework, to find out where to look for what, I inspected the packages I had installed with tar:
#tar -tjf <package>

And to find out what went wrong:
#su -
#tail /var/log/messages

Happy hacking.

I'm very thank you very much. I can start my mysql now. thanks